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After looking at my global friends last night it was like the band was back together.

Ophi
Dark Invoker
Rivera
Fats/Porch
Ciro
and Stripe was on the night before.

Someone go hunt down Cowboy Jon and Sharp.

Not a big fan of the forums. It's funny though because I had to use the wayback machine to get my old avatar working and seeing the old forums was creepy.

Well there is a name I recognize.

I just read in another thread that I need to manually unlock every character manually.

My account says it's a VIP (because the game comes with a free month). How long does it take before I show up as a VIP on the forums and unlock my characters in game?

Quack?

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why not auto-level to 50 on test?

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Thats really simple... villain epics.

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I8 Test Server Notes:
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• Many objects in the game which were meant to be immune to Teleportation have been made so. This affects several powers in the Traps Secondary and Gadgets secondary for players.

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Emphasis added.

Last time I checked, there is no Gadgets secondary. There is, however, one called Devices. Freudian slips like this and folks wonder why some hold the belief that the devs don't seem to know the Blaster AT all that much.

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Devices is still called Gadgets in the powers database. Once the name of a power or powerset is set in the database, it never changes; there's a seperate entry in the database to change the name that gets displayed in game. Whoever wrote up the original patch note probably just forgot to use the display name, rather than the database name. Reminds me of when _Castle_ kept calling the brute inherent power "Rage" even months after it was changed to "Fury."

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That explains the bugs I've seen with the new stacking buff feature. Looks like Fury and Rage stack as well as a /Fire brute's Fire/Plasma Shield and my Thermal's Fire/Plasma Shields.

As for the rest of this thread... nevermind me.

They seem to be a new addition with issue 7. There are a ton of them in the Rikti Crash Site now.

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Pay more attention to PVP please, thanks.

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ARENA KIOSKS IN POCKET D! DIDN'T YOU HEAR?!

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If you do not have Leadership, especially Tactics, then you are a sitting duck for whatever Stalkers happen to be running around. And there is NO guarantee that your teammates will be paying enough attention to catch the Stalker that *they* can see and *YOU* cannot. Or, for that matter, the invisible Scrapper or Blaster doing their best imitation of a Stalker.


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Yeah it probably sucks to have sub-par teammates who can't keep you alive.

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Not to mention that Tactics offers some resistance to Confuse and Fear powers, and Assault offers some resistance to Taunt and Placate. All of which are relatively common powers in PVP. And most of which are not well-resisted powers in general. Vengeance is entirely nasty for turning the tide of battle as well.


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Everything that leadership provides, another empath can provide more reliably.

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I strongly disagree that Absorb Pain is useful in PVP.


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I like looking at AP as taking one for the team. If you just healed a teammate to full and whoever you're fighting has to switch to targeting you in order to take advantaget of AP's penalty, now your entire team can take out who is attacking you. AP is the main reason empath defenders take Phase Shift for PvP.

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I still prefer Fly for my Empath in PVP, and I do play her as almost pure support in PVP. It's not the fastest power out there, certainly, but it's good for keeping out of the range of non-fliers while still being *in* range to support the team. If you want, add in slotted Hurdle and Swift for the times you get grounded and you'll find that you can move pretty darned fast on the ground as well.


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Fly is the slowest and easiest travel power to simply shut off in the game. As such it will continue to suck in PvP more than any other option. If your opinion of fly is based on zone PvP on Virtue, I pity you.

GJ with the PvE build posted in a thread all about PvP empaths.

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Escape TP is really nice.. but for the Empath, doesn't it require dropping one of Fitness, Speed, Leaping or Concealment? All of which seem crucial to me.


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Exactly

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Fortitude
Description: Ally +DEF, +DMG, +ACC
Comments: This power allows players to have DEFENSE against PSIONIC ATTACKS. Vital to PvP.

Recommended Slotting: 4x Membranes or 3x Recharge, 3x TohitBuffs


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I think I'll take a stab at this one...

4 slotting anything with the same enhancement is not wise since ED. Yes it helps you a smidge more then 3 slotting but the 4th is almost always used better someplace else/on another type of enhancement.

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BTW, mind/ and psimastery/ TK is indeed a standard mag hold. Stacks with other holds and whatnot.


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TK doesn't stack with other holds in PvP.

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Yes. I was a little misleading with the Telekinesis power. Especially since this is for Scrappers who have almost complete mez protection. I made it sound like Telekinesis would render them helpless and unable to act, when infact, you can act. You are just pushed


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Unyielding provides repel protection. Any power that provides repel protection negates the repel in TK. The only *exception* to this is Increase Density from Kinetics. ID currently needs to be stacked (I honestly don't know how many times) in order to ignore the Repel on things like TK and Force Bubble.

Also where did you get the crit chances from? Dev PM or some other reliable source?

As long as you get the cool animation that RoTP does, I'm down.

PvP Reclaimators:
0 HP and 0 End = not well thought out... why I played a BS/Regen so much. Besides a team with 2 Emps that have Recall friend nullify the penality.

Heros/AVs:
Posi is overpowered... for a defender... but at least one defender is.

Back Alley Brawler/Statesman 1 shotting everything but a Brute running unstop... is... um... funny.

Manticore is ANNOYING!

Lord Recluse was a joke.

Scirocco was a joke.

Black Scorpion was a joke.

Mako is apparently very resistant to slows... when his HP gets really low he runs around more than Diabolique while 2 shotting almost everyone.

Ghost Widow needs to be nerfed. I'm not kidding. She seriously is the toughest of them all. One shot holding (the animation for that hold is SWEET though) a tank through Unyielding + Unstop then one shotting is dumb. Her Dark Regen puts her in Hamidon class.

About this event:

Instead of grinding characters that I eventually wont like... I've I found the ones I do like and will level them. I also found some builds to just not be my style. I played sets I don't have the patients to level... but will grind through them now knowing the end result.

About the only other thing I can suggest is that the devs make an event like this more often or even set up another test server that is like this. This had to be one of the best times I've ever had in CoH/V.

So how about Ghost Widow one-shot holding... then killing a Scrapper. At least it looked cool when it happened.

First I got "421 Anonymous logins not allowed here" then I right clicked and Saved As... problem solved.

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Here's the question: How are the Villian Patron Pool Powers more "powerful" than Hero Ancillary Pool Powers?


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Because the heroes haven't been nerfed enough yet?

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thats a little skewed there. there are buffs to nullify everything but knockback. and you can also get off attacks between teh knockdowns.

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Increase Density

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they really need to suppres the pvp asoect for the time bieng since most ppl arnt doin any sort of testing , and those that try are being slaughtered

btw its seems that when ever villians take 3 pillboxes server crashes

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They don't need to do that,they just need to observe the people only there to annoy the villians when they try to test things out and when we try to spawn the AV's and they kill the other Pillboxes.

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Testing PvP in a PvP zone you say? Blasphemy!

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The hero APPs are just so far superior to PPPs its not even funny.


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You have your PPP already? You hit 50? Gratz man! You must be the first.

The AS animation should be some type of Siphon Life one... where you suck the soul out of your target.

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few BIG things....VILLAINS ARE TOO UNDERPOWERED!

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Villains are 4 powers behind.
Villains are 18? slots behind.
Stalkers aren't used to teaming.

You're probably also vastly out numbered because RV is about the only new thing for Heroes.